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Political Correctness

  1. the national interest
    Political Correctness Is LosingHow the Democratic Party fought back against illiberalism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  2. politics
    Why Republicans Want Voters to Panic About Critical Race TheoryGOP complaints are largely based on myths, but they think scaring white middle-class parents is a winning electoral strategy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. republican party
    Is ‘Anti-Wokeness’ the New Ideology of the Republican Party?The sudden GOP obsession with “cancellation” suggests old-school conservatism may be displaced by cultural extremism that goes beyond Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. conservatism
    What Can Republicans Do to Make ‘Conservative Populism’ More Popular?From identifying a few ways to re-redistribute resources to their constituencies to restricting the franchise, Republicans are battling the future.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. impeachment trial
    What Trump’s Lawyers Mean by ‘Constitutional Cancel Culture’Unbelievably, the supreme bully Trump is being depicted as a victim of Congress in a trial over his incitement of an attack on Congress.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. the national interest
    An Elite Progressive LISTSERV Melts Down Over a Bogus Racism ChargeA case study in why the White Fragility rules don’t work.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. racism
    In the Trump Era, Political Incorrectness on the RiseRacists appear to feel liberated to express themselves freely these days, and the partisan gap in racial perceptions has become very large.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. martin luther king
    Is a Prophet Like MLK Possible Today?Hearts have hardened, and the opponents of racial justice don’t hear the words of prophets.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. political correctness
    CNN Fired Marc Lamont Hill to Comfort Conservative SnowflakesHill’s firing shows that nothing is more “politically incorrect” than the idea that Palestinians and Israelis are equally entitled to human rights.
    By Eric Levitz
  10. centrism
    No, Hate Speech and Political Correctness Are Not EquivalentDavid Brooks and Charles Lane want compromise above all. Sometimes that involves a compromise with evil.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. Trump’s DOE Vows to Help College Students Restrict Free Speech (About Israel)The Trump administration announces that anti-Zionist speech is too politically incorrect and triggering to be allowed on college campuses.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. charlottesville protests
    Study: 24 Million White Americans Have Alt-Right Beliefs. What’s That Mean?A new study suggests that 12 percent of white Americans pass a test for adherence to white identity politics. That’s a lot of people.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. ‘Political Incorrectness’ Is Just ‘Political Correctness’ for ConservativesA GOP gubernatorial candidate has learned an important lesson from Trump: Being offensive is now an ideological imperative for conservatives.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. Donald Trump: The Campus Free-Speech Crisis Is ‘Highly Overblown’The president argues that the media pays too much attention to the illiberal left, which has little influence beyond “one campus or two campuses.”
    By Eric Levitz
  15. the national interest
    The Right Is Worse Than the Left on Free Speech. So What?A value is something you hold yourself to, not just something you taunt the other side with.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. the national interest
    Katie Roiphe Is Right About Twitter Feminism and Wrong About #MeTooAn alternatingly brilliant and incoherent essay continues to fascinate.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. Trump’s ‘Sh*thole Country’ Comment Is Right-wing Political Correctness Run AmokThe right doesn’t want to face the inconvenient truths of history. So it blames the poverty of ex-slave colonies on the character of their residents.
    By Eric Levitz
  18. Establishment Fave McSally Will Run for Senate As a Sharia-Hating Trump AllyIn her campaign announcement video, McSally moves to the right as fast as she possibly can.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Yes, Gone With the Wind Is Another Neo-Confederate MonumentWhile Gone With the Wind is not a chiseled monument in a public place, it contributed to the mythology supporting Jim Crow just as powerfully.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. Failing GOP Candidate in VA Shows Limits to Attacks on ‘Political Correctness’Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Corey Stewart seems to have gone too far by running on the Confederacy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. The ‘Shut It Down!’ Left and the War on the Liberal MindA noisy, illiberal minority in the progressive movement might not be a minority forever.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. interesting times
    The Opioid Epidemic Is This Generation’s AIDS CrisisBut where is the rural ACT UP?
    By Andrew Sullivan
  23. Trump’s Silence on White Supremacist Terror Is Political Correctness Run AmokThe president is too afraid of offending oversensitive conservatives to protect America against radical racist terrorism.
    By Eric Levitz
  24. campus culture wars
    A Communist NYU Professor Says He Got Ousted for Mocking Political CorrectnessThis is a particularly zany example of the annoying campus-culture skirmishes popping up around the country.
    By Jesse Singal
  25. microaggressions
    Colleges Are Defining ‘Microaggressions’ Really BroadlyShould administrators get involved when a student says “America is a land of opportunity”?
    By Jesse Singal
  26. the national interest
    Chicago and the Anti-Anti-P.C. LeftLots of people on the left agree with the University of Chicago, but they don’t want to admit it.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. The Meaning of Trump’s Cult of Political IncorrectnessThe brouhaha over a Trump tweet that allegedly used anti-Semitic symbolism is a good example of how he can be forgiven anything by his followers, except showing concern for others’ feelings.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. Pat Buchanan Tells Trump to Stay OffensiveAs most Republicans beg Trump to get a grip on the racism, the former insurgent candidate speaks for the right-wingers who fear he will go all PC. 
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. today in donald trump
    Trump: Racist Comments ‘Totally Fine’According to Trump, the things he said about Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s credibility were “totally fine.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
  30. the national interest
    Anti-Trump Riots and the War Over LiberalismThe left has to decide if the oppressor has rights.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. Trump’s Anti-P.C. Feedback Loop of White OutrageHis core audience can’t get enough of pushing back against elites and their perceived women-and-minorities clientele.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. select all
    How Breitbart Is Milking the Milo Yiannopoulos Campus-Outrage Outrage CycleThis will never end, because college kids have trouble not getting outraged over stupid things.
    By Jesse Singal
  33. donald trump
    Emory U. to Track Down Trump-Supporting ChalkersSome students say they were harmed by Sunday night’s act of mass-chalking.
    By Jesse Singal
  34. School Gives Trigger Warnings to Armed StudentsAt public universities in Texas, the Second Amendment is in a standoff with the First.
    By Eric Levitz
  35. the national interest
    Obama on Political Correctness: ‘A Recipe for Dogmatism’The necessity of arguing difficult things.
    By Jonathan Chait
  36. the national interest
    Can We Start Taking Political Correctness Seriously Now?“Help me get this reporter out of here. I need some muscle over here.”
    By Jonathan Chait
  37. the national interest
    Barack Obama Versus Political CorrectnessThe president weighs in.
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. the national interest
    Liberalism vs. the Left: Bernie Sanders, #BlackLivesMatter, and Free SpeechA movement has to decide what democracy means.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. the national interest
    Is the New Political Correctness Already Dying?Absurdities mount, as does dissent.
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. the national interest
    What the Charges Against Laura Kipnis Tell Us About Political CorrectnessA university opens a gender bias investigation against a professor for … writing a column.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. the national interest
    Is Political Correctness Good for the Left?We’re thinking about the wrong class of victims.
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. the national interest
    Secret Confessions of the Anti-Anti-P.C. MovementIn their hearts, they know I’m right.
    By Jonathan Chait
  43. the national interest
    Not a Very P.C. Thing to SayHow the language police are perverting liberalism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. the national interest
    Not a Very P.C. Thing to SayHow the language police are perverting liberalism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  45. racial gaffes
    Alaska Congressman Casually Mentions ‘Wetbacks’ Picking TomatoesThere’s the changing face of the GOP, and then there’s Don Young.
    By Adam Martin
  46. political correctness
    School Principal Nixes ‘Proud to Be an American’Parents are not pleased.
    By Andre Tartar